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The Startup Magazine
SEPTEMBER 17, 2023
Aside from the environmental advantages, car sharing is a cost-effective option for company employees to use vehicles. Thanks to this, there is no need for employees to pay for taxis or save up for their own cars; instead, they can access cars from the company’s fleet when necessary for business trips or assignments.
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
Most entrepreneurs today don’t remember the Dot-Com bubble of 1995 or the Dot-Com crash that followed in 2000. These bubble startups were actually guessing at their business model and did premature and aggressive hype and early company launches and had extremely high burn rates – all predicated on an IPO to raise more cash.
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Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 31, 2019
Today the rate of startups going public (IPO – Initial Public Offering) is up from the dead zone, but is still half the rate back before 2000. Typical costs for startups today range from $250,000 to $1 million, even if the offering does not go through. Going public is an expensive process.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 23, 2012
Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. The most successful of these businesses will still need venture capital to scale their businesses. In 1998 there were around 850 VC funds and by 2000 there were 2,300. The Funding Problem.
Steve Blank
MARCH 31, 2014
I’m honored to be at a university noted for knowledge, and in a city with 2000 years of history – home of Gaudí one of the 20 th century’s greatest innovators. In fact, it was only 7 years ago that Apple shipped its first iPhone and Google introduced its Android operating system. Thank you for the kind introduction.
TechEmpower
FEBRUARY 13, 2013
Our business model nudges us slightly toward the sound, safe (stodgy?) We work with clients to get them off the ground with a platform to build their business. As the technical partner, we want to be real partners in the business-making sure the technology helps achieve the business objectives.
ConversionXL
MARCH 19, 2020
Yet in expansionary periods, successful leaders spent significantly less on [selling, general, and administrative costs] than did their former peers. A Harvard Business Review (HBR) study of 4,700 public companies looked at the three years before, during, and after recessions. Frameworks for businesses during a crisis.
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